It’s the last episode of season two and there’s SO much to absorb. So much that we call on Gabriel Hardman and Conor Kilpatrick to help process The Black Lodge, BOB and all the other David Lynch goodness for Twin Peaks swan song on TV…for now.
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WannaCry ransomware breaks, Legend of Zelda on your phone, and the last Itanium.
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1973 – The United States launched Skylab, the country’s first space station as part of the Apollo space program.
1984 – According to his Facebook profile Mark Zuckerberg was born in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He would grow up to found Facebook.
1992 – Texas Instruments decided to take on the dominance of Intel, announcing its own 486 microprocessor chip. Cyrix corp. designed the chip for TI, but it proved unsuccessful in weakening Intel’s dominance.
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1884 – A group of people interested in the new field of electricity met in New York to start the American Institute of Electrical Engineers.
1939 – Franklin Doolittle put experimental station W1XPW on the air, making it the first commercial FM radio station in the United States. The station later became WDRC-FM in Bloomfield, Connecticut.
1958 – The trademark “Velcro” was registered, protecting the name of the multi-purpose material that manages cables everywhere.
1976 – Atari released the video game “Breakout,” making the paddle controller useful for something besides “Pong.
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Mark Spoonauer, Editor-in-Chief of Tom’s Guide and Laptop Mag talks with Tom Merritt about the Samsung Galaxy S8 and whether DeX can really replace a laptop.
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A look inside Elon Musk’s first Boring test of a tunnel for your car, HP’s audio driver/keylogger and the worst worldwide malware attack since Code Red.
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Uber and Waymo headed to trial, Apple awards Corning its first manufacturing money, Microsoft announces new features for Windows, Android and iOS.
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1936 – University of Washington education professor August Dvorak received a patent for his new more efficient keyboard layout. While widely recognised as superior to the QWERTY layout, the Dvorak keyboard is not widely used.
1941 – German engineer Konrad Zuse presented the Z3, the first program-controlled electromechanical digital computer. It succeeded the Z1 which was the first binary digital computer.
2005 – Elijah Wood revealed the Xbox 360 on the MTV Music Awards. Microsoft didn’t announce price or release dates, only saying it would arrive for sale by the end of the year.
2015 – Verizon announced it would acquire AOL, including its ISP, advertising and blogging opertions as a wholly-owned subsidiary.
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The end of history, the beginning of history, and why we get so upset about politics.
Windows 10 Fall Creators update will make iOS and Android better, plus the new standards for passwords make it easier on you, and Verizon outbids AT&T on an easy path to 5G.
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